Reading

It's coming to the end of a year, probably a good idea to look back and consider what book I planned to read but didn't.

Seasoned readers of this blog may recollect I made such a plan at the beginning of the year (go read http://ccszeto.blogspot.com/2008/12/plan.html). When I go through it again, many of them were done - except Food Politics and Freakonomics - the latter of which I planned to read in the coming weeks.

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My friends KM and BK were recently amazed to find me keeping a few non-medical books in my office. I must say these volumes are there largely for reference.

Here is my (incomplete) list:

• On Writing Well by William K. Zinsser
• Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
• How to Say It at Work by Jack Griffin
  
• Fowler's Modern English Usage
  
• Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics by Andrew Cohen and Christopher Wellman
  
• The Science of Sherlock Holmes by E. J. Wagner

PS. Strunk & White is not there; I keep it at home for careful study.